Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence
Was Martin Parr Just Taking the Piss?
Behind the ice creams, leisure parks and plastic excess lay a photographer who turned consumer culture back on itself – and refused to play the art market’s scarcity game.
Art Basel’s Vincenzo de Bellis on Neutrality, Risk and Evolution
New artistic and fair director says the fair “does not take any position” - yet its sector design, buyer strategy and global expansion actively shape the art market ecosystem
News
Diya Vij appointed New York City culture commissioner
Brooklyn-based curator and arts administrator will lead the Department of Cultural Affairs amid funding pressures and sector contraction
Barbican Arts Chief Devyani Saltzman to Leave Weeks After Renewal Plans Made Public
Exit of director for arts and participation follows arrival of new chief executive and recent rollout of five-year artistic plan
British Museum Scrubs Use of ‘Palestine’ in Middle East Displays
Labels and maps in several ancient Middle East galleries have been updated after complaints about anachronistic geographic terms.
Artists Address Marshall Islands’ Nuclear Legacy in National Maritime Museum Show
Works developed after a 2023 Cape Farewell expedition bring together art and research on sea-level rise and nuclear testing in the remote Pacific nation.
A Ming Painting Donated to Nanjing Museum Resurfaces at Auction, Prompting Investigation
Authorities launch inquiries after a scroll given to the museum in 1959 appears on the market with an eight-figure estimate
Ukraine Pavilion to Spotlight Evacuated Sculpture at Venice Biennale
Zhanna Kadyrova’s suspended concrete deer will anchor exhibition examining failed security guarantees and wartime displacement
Trump Officials Push for Expanded Portrait Display at Smithsonian
Discussions about adding multiple images of the president come amid wider tensions between the White House and the Smithsonian Institution
AlUla Contemporary Art Museum Plans Advance with Pompidou Partnership as Cultural Strategy Draws Scrutiny
A Lina Ghotmeh–designed museum in northwest Saudi Arabia will focus on landscape, heritage and artist archives as part of wider AlUla cultural development
Stephen Friedman Gallery Enters Administration and Closes London Space After 30 Years
The Mayfair dealer has appointed administrators and ceased operations, with staff laid off, financial pressures disclosed and fair plans reassigned
Opinion
Private Views: Champagne Socialism at the Whitney Art Party
In the first dispatch from her new column on the New York art scene, writer Gabriella Angeleti tries to pin down Zohran Mamdani's wife on the dancefloor
Was Martin Parr Just Taking the Piss?
Behind the ice creams, leisure parks and plastic excess lay a photographer who turned consumer culture back on itself – and refused to play the art market’s scarcity game.
The Ghost of Franco
Fifty years after the dictator’s death, Spain’s artists and museums are confronting a legacy that refuses to stay in the past
AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical?
HIV is not a closed chapter, yet AIDS-related art is increasingly treated as one. As institutions and markets embrace this work, what is lost when urgency becomes history?
Features
Gibellina and the Limits of Art-Led Regeneration
Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed.
The Wii Effect: How Gaming Rewired the Art of Performance
Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines
.jpg%3F2026-02-12T16%3A29%3A51.979Z&w=3840&q=100)
Climate Culture and the Politics of Caution
Ten years after Paris, climate is at the centre of cultural programming. But can art still challenge extractive power, or has it settled for optics?
Television as Medium: How a Century of Broadcasting Reshaped Art
Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence
Market
Trust, After the Photograph
At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them
.jpg%3F2026-02-16T17%3A06%3A27.703Z&w=3840&q=100)
Singapore’s Art Market Is Built on Policy, Not Hype
Structural factors including tax design, regulatory stability and wealth concentration are reshaping Singapore’s role as a regional art-market hub
After the Avatar: Tilly Norwood and the Representation Market
An AI platform, designed to be iterated, refined and redeployed across media, has been signed by a major Hollywood agency - what does this mean for the art market?
What Can the Artworld Expect from the Mamdani Era?
On 1 January, New Yorkers got a new mayor, and so did the city’s artworld